Lot Essay
A similar print from the W. Schindler Collection was sold at Christie's New York, 26 April 1995, lot 153
![HOKUSAI: kakuban surimono (20.7 x 18.3cm.); Shichirigahama yori Koshigoe o chobo [A view of the town of Koshigoe from Shichirigahama beach], signed Ro Iitsu shai [drawn after nature by the old man Iitsu], with poems above by Rokujuan Fukumaro and Shuchodo Monoyana--good impression and colour, paper tape residue to reverse](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1999/CKS/1999_CKS_06138_0002_000(114521).jpg?w=1)
Details
HOKUSAI: kakuban surimono (20.7 x 18.3cm.); Shichirigahama yori Koshigoe o chobo [A view of the town of Koshigoe from Shichirigahama beach], signed Ro Iitsu shai [drawn after nature by the old man Iitsu], with poems above by Rokujuan Fukumaro and Shuchodo Monoyana--good impression and colour, paper tape residue to reverse
Provenance
With Tony Straus-Negbaur seal. This print was in the Straus-Negbaur Sale, Berlin 1928, lot no. 410
Inscribed in pencil on the passe partout: Collection Barnes, Juin 1931
Inscribed in pencil on the passe partout: Collection Barnes, Juin 1931
Literature
For a similar example see Matthi Forrer, Hokusai, Prints and Drawings (Munich and London, Prestel Verlag and Royal Academy of Arts, 1991), pl. 99